Interactive Java was a steaming pile of crap. Have you ever used an awt UI? Has anyone ever successfully coded a Swing UI? Java IDEs, other than Visual J++, needed insanely powerful machines just to come up in less than 10 minutes.
This is what it took to make interactive Java successful in Android: Subtract cross-platformness, add a runtime designed for a specific OS architecture, add a nice UI stack, and add modularity to apps that makes component lifecycle useful to running apps efficiently. Among other mods. Android "corrupted" the fuck out of Java which was absolutely nowhere as a language for interactive software.
This is what it took to make interactive Java successful in Android: Subtract cross-platformness, add a runtime designed for a specific OS architecture, add a nice UI stack, and add modularity to apps that makes component lifecycle useful to running apps efficiently. Among other mods. Android "corrupted" the fuck out of Java which was absolutely nowhere as a language for interactive software.
Oracle should have gotten on the bandwagon.